The irony is that prosperity often reveals whether a man truly loved GOD or merely needed HIM.
Israel cried out passionately in the wilderness, but once they entered abundance, many forgot the LORD. This is why GOD repeatedly warned Israel:
“Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God…” (Deuteronomy 8:11)
If moving to America reduced your prayer life, America did not become your god; comfort did. America simply exposed what your prayer life was built upon.
The highest form of prayer is not, “GOD, give me.”
The highest form of prayer is, “GOD, I want YOU.”
A man who has discovered GOD will still pray when every earthly need has been met, because prayer is not sustained by desperation alone; it is sustained by love.
It is unfortunate that many think otherwise.
Around June 2024, I used to wake up every night to pray.
One day, after praying, I slept, and along the way I started hearing melodic voices singing sweet and beautiful gospel songs close to my ears (all were songs of praise to God)
They were new songs because I had never heard them in real life.
It had only been a year since I started walking with Jesus.
I can bet I have never heard such sweet and harmonized voices in my entire life.
After that, I started hearing things about my parents and some areas my dad was dissatisfied with. I called to confirm the next morning, and they were true.
I thought that was the end, but from the next day I began having out-of-body experiences.
Every night around 4 am, I would feel a presence close to me, and I felt my spirit leave my body, accompanied by a heavenly being.
I was taken and shown beautiful places and mountains. I can bet that no place on earth is as beautiful as those places. I remember telling my mom I was tired of the world and wished I could just stay there.
Sometimes I found myself joining a crowd to sing new, beautiful songs. There was this day we sang “Blessed Are You” by Paul Wilbur.
That experience is something I can never forget or replicate here on earth. I know I haven’t traveled around this world, but I can tell you heaven is not what you can imagine.
From that day, I began waking up with new songs on my lips. Sometimes I would wake up singing new songs; other times I received new songs in dreams and recorded them when I woke up.
I now have close to 100 new gospel songs I have received. It became so frequent that I casualized it and thought it was normal, but every time I sing any of these songs, I get question like, “Who is the author?”
At some point it stopped, and I thought God had left me not until I realized that whenever I enter deep worship, new songs flow easily.
The spiritual realm is real!
Jesus is real!
Heaven is real!
Accept Christ today, He is the only way to eternal life.
I have many more encounters to share, but I’ll stop here.
Some people love to say Christianity is the "White man’s religion," but there’s a name buried in the early chapters of the Bible that makes that whole argument fall apart.
If you open the Book of Acts, chapter 13, you’ll find a list of the top five leaders of the church in Antioch.
These were the heavyweights, the prophets and teachers who actually ran the show. Right there, next to Barnabas and Saul (who became the Apostle Paul), is a man named Simeon.
But the Bible doesn't just call him Simeon. It adds a nickname: Niger.
Pause for a moment and process that for a second. In 1st-century Latin, "Niger" literally means "Black." This wasn't a metaphor. This was a physical description.
While the ancestors of most modern "White" Christians were still worshipping trees in the forests of Europe, a Black man was sitting in a room in Syria, presiding over the church that would change the world.
Think about the hierarchy here. Simeon wasn't some "convert" sitting in the back row waiting for a European to explain the Gospel to him. He was a Prophet and a Teacher. He was a senior executive of the faith.
In fact, the text says that while they were fasting and praying, the Holy Spirit spoke. And who was it that laid hands on Paul and Barnabas to ordain them and send them off on their first world mission? It was Simeon and the other leaders.
Imagine that visual. The great Apostle Paul, the man who wrote half the New Testament, had to kneel down so a man called "The Black" could lay hands on him and authorise his ministry.
The Gospel didn't "come" to Africa through a colonial ship in the 1800s. Africa was at the table, in the leadership room, and in the spirit, right from day one. We weren't just invited to the party; we were the ones hosting it.
Next time someone tells you that the faith is a social construct designed to make you submit to the West, tell them about Simeon. He wasn't a follower of a Western religion. He was an architect of a global one.
Story don end.
INALEGWU.